In one video (TED Talk, start - 4min 8sec) Lee Mun Wah shared some of his schooling experiences. At one point he statd, “I don’t think a day goes by that I don’t realize…that I didn’t throw away just my food, I threw away a part of myself.” Considering what we have read about and discussed so far in this course, interpret what Lee Mun Wah meant. How does Lee Mun Wah’s experience relate to what we have been reading about and discussing in class thus far? (hint: you may want to discuss any or all of the following-- Americanization, internalized oppression, microaggressions, racism).(you may need google this video and watch it)
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